Octopuss Garden: Articulation Up

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Octopuss Garden  Articulation Up Down

• ASCCC Counseling and Library Science Faculty
  Institute
• Saturday, February 21, 2009
• Bernie Day, Foothill College
• Michelle Pilati, Rio Hondo College

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Overview

• Introductions
• Transfer and You
• C-ID
• Lower Division Transfer Patterns (LDTP)
• Statewide Career Pathways
• ASSIST Course Search
• Challenges and Concerns

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Transfer and You

• What mechanism do you have on your campus for
  keeping informed about Transfer and Articulation
  Issues?
• Do you feel informed about current Transfer and
  Articulation Issues and Processes?
• What tools do you need to do your job better?
• Do the articulation, counseling and transfer
  leads work together on your campus?

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Course Identification Number System (C-ID)

• A proposal to replace and expand CAN
• a supra-numbering system
• a response to mandates needs
• a published set of course descriptors for use by
  postsecondary institutions and CCC students,
  faculty, and counselors

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What is C-ID?

• Intersegmental
• Faculty-driven
• Voluntary

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Why C-ID? Why CAN?

• A uniform course-numbering system like that in
  place in FL is unnecessary in CA, excessively
  costly and bureaucratic, and probably unworkable
  because of the size and complexity of CA higher
  education . . . .
• Such a uniform system appears to make unduly
  simplistic assumptions about the comparability or
  equivalency of courses offered by different
  institutions and gives CC students and counselors
  a false sense of security about equivalency if
  they are not fully.
• http//www.cansystem.org/CAN_Guide.pdf

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In other words..

• CAN offered a means of identifying comparable
  courses while respecting existing numbering
  systems and local control of curriculum.
• C-ID will do the same and address some of the
  problems with CAN.

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What happened to CAN?

• CAN (California Articulation Numbering System
  (1985-2005)
• Advantages Articulation, shared number, widely
  used, helpful for CCC-CCC transfer
• Disadvantages Lacked UC participation, not
  sufficiently descriptive, some courses and
  descriptions outdated, limited faculty review
• CAN becomes a CCC Orphan January 2005

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Project Overview

• Currently nearing the end of Year 2
• Reviewing draft descriptors and developing more
• Finalizing validation process and determining
  how to implement

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FDRGs

• Faculty Discipline Review Groups
• Intersegmental faculty develop descriptors
• Descriptors are posted for statewide review at
  www.c-id.net

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Next FDRGs

• February 26-27, 2009
• Corrections (Legal Aspects of Evidence,
  Investigation, Community Relations, and
  Corrections)
• Art (Art History)
• Communication Studies
• Geography
• History

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Senate Bill 1785 (2004)

• CSU Lower Division Transfer Pattern (LDTP)
• Calls on CSU to develop a systemwide lower
  division transfer curriculum
• ..existing procedures such as the California
  Articulation Number (CAN) program shall be
  employed.

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LDTP

• Lower Division Transfer Pattern to replace CAN
• A CSU response to legislative mandate
• Required
• Identifying commonalities
• Hinted at some sort of numbering system
• Highest priority

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More on LDTP

• Common courses identified
• TCSU process created
• Course descriptor that would be acceptable to
  majority of CSUs.
• Course with TCSU designation must be accepted by
  all CSUs.
• CCC issues with validation process.

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CCC Response Concerns raised about LDTP

• Lack of CCC involvement in outlining process and
  creating descriptors
• Unreasonable timelines
• Poor CSU-CCC communication
• CCCs fear loss of local college to college
  articulation.(e.g. SDSU)

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Counselors and LDTP

• How are you advising students about LDTP?
• Is there a real impact on students?
• What are the positive aspects of LDTP?
• What are the challenges with LDTP?

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Statewide Career Pathways
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Project Goal

• Facilitate articulation between high schools,
  ROCPs, and colleges.
• Also
• Increase awareness of CTE
• Internal
• External
• Remove barriers

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Marketing CTE
Academic Senate for California Community Colleges
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Road Trip Nation
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Facilitating High School to Community College
Articulation

• Create templates
• Database
• Templates
• Articulation
• Outreach
• Whos responsibility Tech prep? Articulation
  officer? Counselors? Vocational Deans, Faculty?

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Sequence of events

• Discipline groups develop articulation templates.
• Templates disseminated for field input.
• Once approved, added to new database.
• Local articulation agreements written using
  templates.
• New articulation agreements put into database.
• Available statewide.

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In Progress

• Facilitate articulation events
• Populate database of agreements
• More templates
• Address barriers

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Identified Barriers

• Transcript issues
• Delayed credit credit in escrow
• University articulation issues
• UC/CSU acceptance of credit granted for HS work
  is unclear.
• Database resistance
• Is a commitment implied if I post an articulation
  agreement?

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Credit in Escrow

• Not mandated
• Negatively impacts student persistence
• Academic Senate for the California Community
  Colleges position

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Why delay credit?

• 55050. Credit by Examination. Such credit may
  be granted only to a student who is registered at
  the college and in good standing and only for a
  course listed in the catalog of the community
  college.

Questions? Are there workload issues for CCC
counselors and evaluators for granting immediate
credit without a minimum residency
requirement? How do faculty feel about granting
credit if the student has not completed any other
courses at the college?
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University Articulation Issues

• 55051. Articulation of High School Courses
• Notations of community college course credit
  shall be made only if community college courses
  are successfully completed or if credit is earned
  via credit by examination.

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Not the same old ASSIST. Do you know about the
ASSIST Course Search?

• Introduction
• Important new features
• Course Search now available
• Articulation Summary in summer
• Allows user to search for courses that meet
  specific criteria
• Available on ASSIST at http//info.assist.org/
• Report availability
• Authorized users only
• No public access
• Available to others (counselors and evaluators)
  via Articulation Officer (password)

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ASSIST Course Search

• Provides Access to
• Basic course information title, units
• Links to course outlines, if available
• Course history
• Articulation summary
• Searches in current data only

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ASSIST COURSE SEARCH

• Other Search Criteria
• Minimum/Maximum Units
• Cross Listings
• OSCAR Outlines
• UC Transferability
• CSU Transferability
• IGETC Areas
• CSU GE-Breadth Areas
• UC Transfer Admission Eligibility Areas
• CSU American Ideals Areas
• LDTP TCSU Identifiers
• CAN Identifiers

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Single Course Articulation Summary

• Allow users to find summary of articulation for a
  single course
• Available from ASSIST Maintenance Reports
• Link from course search
• Access to
• Course history
• Articulation summary
• Show departments, majors, GE agreements as
• Drop-downs
• Expanded lists
• Links provide ability to see articulation in
  context
• Details of course history
• All historical versions of course
• All applicable qualifications
• Link(s) OSCAR outline pdfs

Lets give it a try.
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Database then ASSIST Maintenance Reports
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Click here to go to the ASSIST Maintenance
Reports
This tool is really helpful!
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Enter user name and password (obtain from
Articulation Officer)
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Click on Course Search
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Under Institutions select All Community
College Campuses
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Enter name of course in Search in the course
title box
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Select Courses with Any IGETC Qualification in
IGETC Areas
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Scroll down and click on Continue
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Find a course with similar title and click on
curric
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Transfer status and IGETC area will display
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If available, click on PDF for course
description and outline
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Articulation and TransferChallenges and Concerns

• New IGETC policy-implications partial
  certification
• AP/IB credit transfer aligning policy with CCC
  GE?
• Articulation with independent and out-of-state
  institutions
• Responding to needs of expected influx of
  transfer-directed students who were turned away
  by CSU and UC.

What are your concerns?
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ASCCC Your Academic Senate

• Remember to communicate issues and concerns to
  local and regional senators
• Be informed regarding ASCCC resolutions related
  to articulation and transfer
• Get involved!
• Participate on statewide committees and
  initiatives
• Check out the C-ID, Career Pathways, ASCCC,
  ASSIST and other web pages